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rai-knightshade · 6 months

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Get to know me tag game!

Exactly what it says on the tin, I was tagged by @samblerambles for this one!

Top 3 Ships: I hope this question means just, like, currently, cause no way could I choose a top 3 of all time 😭. Current Nuclear-Levels-of-Brainrot Blorbo ships are: 1) Jeca (Jesse x Beca, Pitch Perfect); 2) Zelink (Link x Zelda, primarily Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom); and 3) Zekkna (Jaina x Zekk, Star Wars Legends/Young Jedi Knights). Honorable mentions go to the polyam versions of these ships tho (JessexBecaxChloe and Jaina's Mini Harem aka JainaxZekkxJag(xmaybe Kyp but I'm not sold on him). And maybe also YonaxSidonxLinkxZelda, which I just think is neat and fun)

Favorite color: yellow! I love a good golden, sunny yellow I gotta say 😁

Last Song: unintentionally, Cake by Itzy (played on the radio at the boba place I went to today); intentionally, Mr. Perfectly Fine (Fearless Vault Track by Taylor Swift)

Last Book: you know what, it's been 7 months since I last read anything, I think that officially makes this answer None until I get around to reading another book 😅.... Or it's the Little Golden Books baby's first biography on Taylor Swift. Which might actually be cringier 😅 (cringe is dead and it's a cute book etc etc but goddamn does this still say something about my ability to read actual books nowadays rip)

Last Movie: The Eras Tour Movie, preceded by The Barbie Movie

Currently Watching: nothing intentionally. I like watching some of the MeTV block of classic 70's/80's/90's shows tho. I'm always down for classic Macgyver and Emergency!

Current obsession: while you might come to the conclusion, based on this post, that it's Taylor Swift, I'm actually still fairly normal about her I promise 😅 I maintain the distinction that I'm a swiftie, but I'm not a Swiftie™. There's a difference. No, the actual answer is only mentioned once so far: Pitch Perfect, more specifically Jeca (and also SwanSongs aka Jesse/Beca/Chloe), even more specifically the secret good sequel to the third movie where Jeca can still win (and everyone is truly, canonically queer in a myriad of ways) that lives rent-free in my head, multiple pages of my sketchbooks, and as the Big Damn Fic™ I've been posting very slowly to AO3 since last year. Don't believe me? I'm gonna add '#jeca' and '#not to Blorbo on main but' to the tags of this post, look through the reblogs and actual blogs I've tagged over the past couple years and you'll truly understand how deep it all goes.

Currently Working On: allegedly, it's chapter 2 of the Big Damn Fic™ I just mentioned, 'these hands had to let it go free and- (This Love came back to me)', for which i just posted the ending a couple weeks ago as its own fic in the series to show that I'm doing something with it.

Country You Want to Visit: Scotland, Norway, and New Zealand. And also maybe Iceland. Pretty much in that order. I'd take a tour of Europe too tbh but those are the Big 3 (4).

Tags for Funsies: @thesorrowoflizards @lord-owlsnake @qcboeifzzz @beautiful-flutey @avian-violet and anyone else who sees this and wants to do it! Go for it! (No pressure tho ofc)

#tag games #ask games #taylor swift #jeca #not to blorbo on main but #zelink #zekkna #zekk nolastname #zekk solo fel #oh man is the brainrot strong for these stories #got brainrot so bad i started mentally fleshing out jesse's mom and ended up drawing up an entire page of drawings for her #i think she's my second favorite pitch perfect oc now (second only to my beloved sunshine daughter Maria #naturally)#ill talk more about her when i post said drawings but just know that a) shes kind of a weirdo just like her son #b) she's World's Best Mom™#c) she will see a feral stray standoffish cat in human form (aka Beca) and say 'is anyone else gonna adopt this poor girl'--#--and not wait for an answer. sorry beca she's your mom now. yeah its permanent no backsies. yeah youre on the christmas card too.#(its ok tho in this verse beca's mom is basically nonexistent--much like the actual movies make her--so she's sorely in need of one)#anyways. brainrot. its real bro

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yjk-imagines · 2 years

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Luck (Jaina Solo x Zekk)

a request from the lovely @rai-knightshade. it is really so nice to have someone to fangirl over Jaina and Zekk with now. divider by @djarrex. gif by @princes-jasmine. (neither of you have to read this i promise i just needed to make sure i gave credit)

“Jaina!” Jacen felt it a moment before Zekk saw Jaina fall.

She landed in the middle of the dock as the blaster bolts grew closer, curling in a fetal position. Zekk leaped out from behind the decommissioned GNK droid, creating a beautiful arc with his sizzling orange lightsaber that deflected the lasers into the scorched metal rigging.

Zekk could feel Jaina's pain flooding the Force, along with the anger and rage of the smugglers they were chasing. This group had managed to steal an ancient Jedi holocron from an unsuspecting scavenger on Coruscant, and the Zekk and his friends had been sent to intercept them before they could make their sale on the black market.

Tenel Ka had the lead, as always, and Jacen was right behind her. Lowie had been bringing up the rear, but with a wookie bellow he leaped overhead, shielding Zekk and Jaina with his golden blade.

Lowie bellowed, and Zekk mentally translated before Em-Teedee could pipe up. He dragged Jaina behind the GNK with him, cradling her head as he reached for her injured leg. Lowie barked an approval, pressing forward with the others.

Blasterfire shot by their hiding place. Zekk jerked his arm to shield Jaina, and she grunted in pain.

“Sorry, sorry,” Zekk apologized hastily. Her foot was definitely not supposed to bend in that direction.

He made a split-hair decision and activated his wrist-comm with his nose so that he could keep a good hold on Jaina. “Keep on them, guys, I’m taking Jaina back to the Lightning Rod.”

“Roger!” Jacen replied.

“Oh no, no you’re not,” Jaina pushed Zekk back and grabbed her lightsaber again, “I can still-” She attempted to push herself up onto her feet, but her leg gave way and she fell over Zekk’s shoulder. The others were blocking most of the laserfire, giving him an escape path.

Jaina grunted as he ran, slamming her fists against his back. "Put me down you overgrown tree!" She shouted.

Zekk ran faster as a blaster bolt landed by his foot, "I mean if you have any better ideas for getting you to the ship when you can't walk we can always discuss them in a committee."

"I AM NOT A COMMITTEE!" Jaina gave an unladylike screech as they left the firefight behind. Zekk called on the force to help him run , trying to remember the route back to the hangar where they left his ship.

He felt Jaina fold her arms in an attempt to pout. “We’re in concourse C, hangar forty-nine.”

Zekk silently thanked her, and moments later he was opening his ship’s ramp and willing it to go faster.

“You can put me down, you know?”

“What, like you’re gonna get yourself up the ramp without any support?” Zekk smirked, and she elbowed him in the ribs.

Once safely on board, Zekk set Jaina in the bunk and hurried to the cockpit to start the takeoff cycle. They needed to be able to make a quick getaway once Jacen and the others got the holocron.

A loud clanging noise from the hold tore him from the cockpit. Jaina had fallen out of the bunk, attempted to walk, and promptly tripped over Zekk’s toolkit.

“Jaina!” Zekk tried to settle her into a sitting position on the cot, and she huffed.

“Just because I hurt my leg doesn’t mean I can’t help,” She pouted. Zekk began to search his greasy excuse of a ship for the medkit.

“You’re right, it doesn’t mean you can’t help, but it does mean that you need to rest and not agitate your leg.”

“It’s not that bad-” she insisted.

Zekk tore the medkit out from under the pile of robes and pointed at her foot, “It’s twisted ninety degrees to the right and you can’t put any weight on it,” He declared sharply.

Jaina frowned, but said nothing.

Zekk tried to remember the force healing lessons from Tionne as he prepared to splint Jaina’s leg. He couldn’t ignore the small whisper of “Ow, ow, ow, ow,” that escaped her breath as he gently eased her boot off. If it was going to heal correctly, it needed to be rotated back into position.

“Well, Doctor Zekk?” Jaina folded her arms crossly again.

Zekk sighed, “This is gonna hurt.”

She groaned, “I hate you.”

“I know.” He nodded, “Put your hands on my shoulders.”

Reluctantly, Jaina unfolded her arms to place both hands on Zekk’s boney shoulders. She took a deep breath, trying to shake out all the tension in her muscles.

“You ready?” Zekk asked. Before she could not, he quickly turned her foot into the proper position. Jaina took a deep breath to mitigate the pain, and she gripped his shoulders so tightly Zekk imagined she might rip them from his neck.

He gently massaged her ankle, trying to ensure that the bones were aligned properly before he wrapped it up. She could get proper treatment at the Temple’s medical bay once they got back, but Zekk didn’t want to make the Med-Droid’s job any more difficult than it had to be.

Once Jaina’s breathing had calmed down and her grip on his shoulders had eased up, Zekk took the extendable splints, measuring them to her leg and her foot, holding them into place with ribbons of yellowed gauze. No sooner had he tied the bandage into place, than his comm began to go off.

Jaina accepted it before he could free his hands.

“What’s up?”

“Hey guys! It’s Jacen. Um, what hangar are we in again?”

“Concourse C, Hangar forty-nine!” Jaina and Zekk exclaimed together.

A minute later, Lowie was co-piloting for Zekk, and the ramp just barely closed on Jacen’s heels as the smugglers caught up with them. Jaina rolled her eyes as Jacen proudly presented their coveted treasure.

“I wonder what’s in here…” He murmured, attempting to twist the corners of the glowing blue cube to activate it.

With a tug of the force, Tenel Ka yanked it from his hand.

“Master Skywalker specifically requested that we refrain from activating the holocron until he is present,” She reminded them.

“Yeah, but Jaina and I are both Skywalkers, so that counts for something, right?”

Tenel Ka raised one eyebrow at her boyfriend.

“You’re also Solos, which gives you the worst luck in the galaxy,” Zekk said. Lowie chortled in amusement.

Before Jacen or Jaina could make further argument, the alarms warning of approaching ships blared, and Tenel Ka slipped the holocron in the velvet-lined container Master Skywalker had given them for such purposes. Zekk and Lowie made the jump to hyperspace, and relief flooded the force. Despite injuries and getting lost, and the Lightning Rod’s constant rattling, they had made it out alive.

Now all that was left was the adrenaline-fueled, anxiety-inducing eight hours until they made it back to Yavin IV.

Lowie sat in the cockpit, tinkering with Em-Teedee, and Tenel Ka insisted that Jacen’s snoring wasn’t bothering her meditation, so Zekk went back to check on Jaina.

Jacen had her bundled up in one of the light blankets like a doll, and she didn’t have the energy to toss them aside.

“How’s the leg?” Zekk grinned, leaning over the bunk.

“It’s fine,” she shrugged, “I feel loads better.”

“Uh-huh…” Zekk slowly nodded. “Did you eat your rations earlier?”

“Most of them,” Jaina pointed to the plate of Jacen’s latest concoction from the food processors, “I got real thirsty.”

“Lemme get you-”

“No!” Jaina sat up quickly, and her volume made Zekk jump, watching her curiously.

“I, I mean, I can get it myself-” Before she could toss aside the blankets, Zekk gave her a gentle push back into the bunk.

“No,” he said firmly, “I can get you water. It’s no problem.”

Jaina slumped back against the mattress, and Zekk tapped the water purifier a couple times to get it working.

"You don't have to do stuff for me," a small voice muttered.

Zekk's ponytail swung around to smack his face as he spun to look at Jaina.

She lay on her side, tracing patterns into the fabric of the cot mattress.

"Your leg is broken. Of course I'm going to help you do stuff."

"I can get myself a glass of water." Jaina's hand stubbornly curled into a fist.

Zekk turned his whole body to face her, a cup of water in his hand.

"Can you?" He hummed in amusement.

Jaina lifted her head to glare at him.

"You said you can do it yourself. Come on, I dare you."

Her lips tightened into a frown, and she tossed the blanket to the side, revealing the splint strapped to her leg.

Zekk smirked as she swung her good leg over the side of the bed, struggling to pull the splint after it. He even kicked one of the crates of parts out of the way to make it easier for her.

Jaina grabbed the hanging net that held larger weaponry to pull herself to her feet. She stepped forward on her bad foot, and Zekk resisted the instinctive urge to stop her, even as the Force cried out in pain.

Jaina was good at hiding what she was feeling, but she still bit her lip at the pain.

Zekk raised one eyebrow. Jaina refused to look at him, her face slowly turning red as her breaths deepened.

It was like swinging from branch to branch in the trees back on Yavin. She could do this. She grabbed onto two loops, hanging on for dear life, pitifully hopping forward. She flushed darker, painfully aware of Zekk's eyes carefully watching her.

Zekk's smug satisfaction was slowly becoming concern as Jaina stubbornly crossed half the distance between them, determined to prove her independence. She'd even forgotten the use of the Force in the process.

Her foot knocked against the crate, and as the air was ripped from her lungs, she let go of the net and fell.

Zekk dropped the cup of water in order to catch her. He knelt on the floor with a tangled heap of Jaina in his lap. Her face was hidden in his greasy flight vest in embarrassment.

"Come on," Zekk whispered, his hands tucked under her arms, "Needing help doesn't make you weak, and it doesn't make me think any less of you. I promise."

Jaina nodded against his chest, as if she had known all along.

"Thanks," she mumbled.

Zekk kissed the top of her head, "I love you, you scruffy-looking nerf herder."

"Yeah right," Jaina tugged on his vest, "You're the scruffy one."

Zekk pulled Jaina to her feet and ruffled her hair, pulled out a bit of leather to tie it back from her face.

"Repeat after me: I am a strong, independent woman."

"I am a strong, independent woman."

"But I need to take a nap."

"Kriff no."

Without warning, Zekk wrapped one arm firmly around Jaina's back and the other behind her legs, sweeping her up into his arms.

"You stupid tree!" Jaina sputtered up the same insult from earlier. Zekk ignored her, gently laying her on the bed. He lifted up the covers, and slipped in beside her. Before Jaina could register what was happening, Zekk had his arms around her chest, pulling her face to face with him.

"Jaina, go to sleep."

Jaina's jaw snapped shut before she could catch flies. Zekk's hand cradled the back of her head, tucking it beneath his chin.

"I can still take you," she insisted

"Yeah you can," He agreed, "Goodnight Jaina."

"Good night," she mumbled. She rested her cheek against his chest, listening to the distant thump of his heartbeat. As she focused on its rhythm, the throbbing in her leg began to fade away.

#jaina solo #zekk #star wars #star wars eu #star wars legends #young jedi knights #zekkna #broken legs #broken limbs #lizart writes #BEFORE YOU COME AT ME IN THE COMMENTS I KNOW ITS JYN AND BODHI FROM ROGUE ONE IN THE GIF #BUT THEY LOOK SO MUCH LIKE HOW I IMAGINE JAINA AND ZEKK #AND THAT MOVIE WAS GOOD GOSH DANGIST #useremilia

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lizartgurl · 9 months

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"What are you?"

"A nerf-herder sandwich."

#i love these two sm #lizart #my art #clipstudiopaint #star wars #star wars legends #star wars eu #jaina solo #zekk solo fel #zekk #zekkna #jayzekk #Insert whatever their ship name is here #young jedi knights #new jedi order

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lizartgurl · 8 months

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Jaina and Zekk working on repairs to the Lighting Rod based on this bts photo of Carrisson below the cut

#lizart #my art #star wars #young jedi knights #star wars eu #star wars legends #jaina solo #zekk #jaina x zekk #zekkna #jayzekk #or whatever you deign to call them

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lizartgurl · 1 year

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Jaina was the first to stumble through the airlock from the Rock Dragon. Setting his external sensors to keep an eye out for unwanted visitors, Zekk threw aside his crash webbing and bounded out of the Lightning Rod’s cockpit and into the crew cabin.

He twirled Jaina in a happy hug while they both laughed with relief, but then he growled. “I thought I told you you couldn’t come with me!”

Jaina knew he was trying hard to sounds stern, but she could hear the pleasure in his voice. She pulled back and favored him with a Solo grin. “Since when have you ever done anything I wanted you to do?”

She gave an unladylike snort. “I’m just as worried about your safety as you are about mine, you know.”

Young Jedi Knights: the Emperor's Plague by Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta

I know I've posted/ talked about this scene many times, but

#lizart #my art #clipstudiopaint #jaina solo #zekk #zekkna #young jedi knights #star wars legends #star wars expanded universe #star wars eu #the emperor's plague

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rai-knightshade-art · 2 years

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Anakin Skywalker: Are you an angel?

Padmé Naberrie: What?

Anakin: An angel. I've heard the deep space pilots talk about them. They live on the moons of Iego, I think. They're the most beautiful creatures in the universe.

Padmé: You're a funny little boy. How do you know so much?

Anakin: I listen to all the traders and star pilots who come through here. I'm a pilot, you know, and someday I'm going to fly away from this place.

-Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

(artist thoughts under the cut, image ID in alt text)

So I was rereading one of the final scenes from Young Jedi Knights: Jedi Under Siege a while back, specifically one of the last chapters of the book, which goes like this:

The Praxeum students have defeated the Second Imperium's Dark Jedi, Brakiss is gone with the destruction of the Shadow Academy, and everyone's returning to the Temple to regroup, get medical attention, etc etc. Zekk, formerly Brakiss's Darkest Knight, has been having a bit of a crisis as he's watched all his Dark Jedi fall, felt the death of Brakiss (explicitly a sort of father figure to him), and saw his guardian Peckhum's ship apparently crash into the jungles of Yavin IV. He's questioning his actions, his decisions, his entire being, spiralling as he realizes just how little control he has over his own life, until he finally makes the decision that there's at least one thing he can control. He ends up in front of the Jedi Temple, confronting Jaina, Luke and the other trainees, brandishing his lightsaber and refusing anyone entry. He and Jaina have a verbal battle of wills as she encourages him to embrace the light instead of the dark, appealing to their friendship, "I know there's still good in you, it's not too late to turn back to the light!" Eventually they cross blades, even, until Jaina turns hers off and throws it away in a classic Skywalker maneuver, refusing to fight Zekk; he continues to argue and inch his blade toward Jaina even as he appears conflicted, until they're interrupted when Peckhum's ship, clearly damaged but still flying and containing a very-much-still-alive Peckhum (Zekk's other father figure), which finally snaps him out of it.

Then the Temple blows up from the inside, and we finally get the reveal of what Zekk was actually doing as everyone runs for cover from the falling debris: stalling for time so that there would be no one in the Temple when it blew (a pre-planned act by the Second Imperium), therefore saving everyone. Zekk himself gets hit in the head with some debris after pushing Jaina back and out of the way, and falls to the ground unconscious as Jaina can only look on.

This is where the original chapter ended, and the next chapter time skips to after the chaos of the explosion, when everyone's getting medical attention and the lower levels of the Temple have been decreed safe to enter. I found this to be a bit of a let down though, I had remembered there being more tension, more emotion from these scenes, especially between Jaina and Zekk. And so, enter this comic, a sort of filler scene: after the debris has stopped crashing down around them but before most of the others have gotten their wits back about them, Jaina runs to where Zekk lies unconscious, heedless of any further danger, only concerned about her beloved friend's safety. And because i love it best when star wars rhymes with itself, they unknowingly recreate a moment from decades past, between another lost boy, and another brown-haired girl determined to change the world.

This comic was originally a little sketch along the side of Jaina and Zekk's character page, which you can see here. But even as i drew it there i knew i wanted to see it in full color with the lighting effects i had imagined in my head. And so, here we are!

#star wars legends #young jedi knights #jaina solo #zekk #jaina x zekk #zekk x jaina #zekkna #zekk (star wars)#zekk nolastname #myposts #myart #star wars #the working title for this was alternately 'Are you an Angel?' and 'boy has major crush (and also a major concussion)‚ more at 11 #such is the life of Zekk Nolastname

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rai-knightshade-art · 2 years

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Young Jedi Knights!! Or, ok more accurately they're old enough to be New Jedi Order/Fate of the Jedi/etc etc era but I'm ignoring, like, all of that. So.

@lizartgurl you know that scene we low-key talked about? I drew it 😅 nothing like a good set of parallels in your star wars fan art!

And I'm also of the opinion that Zekk's dynamic with the twins when they were younger is basically 50% Off Makoto and Nagisa, so i present Zekk, explaining one of his many adventures to a pair of kids that i will explain below the cut because their story is... Complicated, and started literally a decade ago 😅

More details and closeups below the cut, image IDs in Alt Text as always!

So i don't think I'm gonna get into the full "story" for these kids on this post, I'll do it on the next one, but I'll give you the lowdown on the kids themselves and the inciting incident:

Roughly 10-ish years after the Shadow Academy incident, a raid on a cloning facility by Zekk, Anakin Solo and a handful of other Jedi goes spectacularly sideways when the "theoretical" genetics experiments they were expecting turned out to be four very real younglings with a startling resemblance to certain key Jedi Knights. It'd been run in secret by Brakiss (who totally survived the destruction of the Shadow Academy don't even worry about it) as a way to revive his Dark Jedi efforts. He "procured" the DNA needed while the Shadow Academy was active from successful (and nonsuccessful) Dark Jedi, and decided if he couldn't kidnap his way to having his Dark Jedi, he'd make them instead, starting by combining the DNA of his Darkest Knight and that pesky Solo girl (she was annoying but extremely powerful, a perfect candidate for the project). The project continued in secret for 10 years before Master Skywalker caught wind of it and sent in a Jedi task force to take it down. Imagine their surprise when they find four kids in amongst the scientists and stormtroopers!

Starting from oldest to youngest, they find:

Ani: 14 (physically, 10 chronologically), eldest of the "test tube" kids, the biological son of Jaina and Zekk; he inherited their love of mechanics and all things spaceflight and wants to be a pilot when he grows up. The defacto leader of the group by virtue of being oldest. Dotes on his baby sister like nothing else, but is otherwise very standoffish and closed off, hiding behind sarcasm and rude quips in order to protect himself and his little family. Had a force vision when he was 5 of a dark haired woman calling for someone named Ani, and decided that that would be his name (rather than the number he was given).

Bail: 10 (physically,6 chronologically), biological son of Jacen and Tenel Ka, very quiet and studious. He read as many holobooks as the scientists would let him have (and snuck as many as they wouldn't), and is a regular fountain of knowledge if you can get him to open up. He's particularly interested in the histories of the Jedi from long, long ago. Named himself after an old politician he read about from the Old Republic, said to be a friend of the Jedi.

Marai: 8 (physically, 4 chronologically), biological daughter of Jacen and Tenel Ka, she's a regular chatterbox, asking as many questions as she can get away with from anyone who will listen. The only time she seems to quiet down is when she's gardening; she has an affinity for plants, able to sense them and help them grow. She has a particular fondness for carnivorous plants, a fact which the other kids find a bit unnerving but she swears they're harmless to humans! ...probably. None of the others know quite why she decided to call herself Marai.

Jasa: 5 (physically, 1 chronologically), biological daughter of Jaina and Zekk, the baby of this rag tag little group. She's a bright ball of sunshine and cheer and boundless energy, able to cheer up even the most dower of her stormtrooper guards. She sees the good in everything, not fully realizing the extent of what's happening around her but also keeping hope alive in the older children, especially Ani. Similarly to her older brother, Jasa also had a Force vision when she was 5, hearing someone call for a Jasa and taking the name for herself.

Of note: the kids' growth was programmed to be faster than normal up until age 5, when it slowed back down to normal; they reached the equivalent of age 5 within about a year of their "births". As such, their apparent ages and their chronological ages are off by about 4 years

The concept for these kids was started about 10 years ago, when i was 14 and had just started reading the Young Jedi Knights books that I'd gotten from my dad. I really loved seeing fankids at that time, so I'd decided to create my own for my favorite ships! But, of course, i was 14 and "edgy" and I'd been reading the Maximum Ride books too, so i decided, Regular-ass fan babies? Nah. Secret lab-grown fan babies? Yeah. And the original 6 Test Tube Babies were born! (Yes, i said 6, not 4; i originally included a pair of Anakin/Tahiri kids with the Jaina/Zekk and Jacen/Tenel Ka kids. I took them out for this iteration though cause a) I'm not even really sure I ship them now, and b) i don't remember how the kids came to be initially but with this backstory using Brakiss, idk how he would have Anakin and Tahiri's DNA, so. Rip to Zeke and Bekka you will be missed.) I might share the og designs for the kids in another post some time, but for now, here ya go! (And if you've read through this entire explanation, thank you and kudos, but also my condolences. 😅)

#young jedi knights #star wars eu #star wars legends #jaina solo #zekk #jaina x zekk #zekkna #fankids #jacen x tenel ka #oc: ani solo #oc: jasa solo #oc: bail djo-solo #oc: marai djo-solo #myposts #myart #au: test tube babies

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rai-knightshade-art · 2 years

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Hello, I've rekindled a middle school hyperfixation of mine and I'm about to make that everybody's problem. Sorry not sorry 😂

Further thoughts and shoutouts under the cut, image IDs in the Alt Text

Shout-out to @lizartgurl /@yjk-imagines for providing that sweet sweet Jaina/Zekk and Young Jedi Knights-era content, mayhaps i can interest you in a wee bit more of it?

Also, i realized I'd accidentally made a green-eyed finder character in Anteros Princely, so i thought he should get to hang with Zekk for a bit and commiserate over being human metal detectors 😅

Btw, idk that these outfits have any basis in canon cause i don't remember what either of these kids actually, ya know, wore on a general basis, but i figured i couldn't go wrong with flight suits and maybe a partial Jedi robe for Zekk; idk they just seem the types? That's what I'm going with anyways I've decided.

Jaina and Zekk's relationship can be described via many memes, several of which will be drawn later, but i thought the "he SAID no PICKLES" and "I don't like your name, i think you should have mine instead" are, i think, peak Jaina/Zekk. Just saying. (Also i never??? Realized??? Just how massive their height difference is???? The split between 4'9" and 6'6" is nearly 2 feet im-- It's wild, is what it is.)

Conversations, starting from top left:

Zekk: So, yeah, it kinda started to feel like i was only useful for finding things for people, ya know?

Anteros: Oh yeah, i know exactly what you mean.

Zekk: Not everyone though! Jaina never asks, anymore... Probably because i already know what she's looking for 😅

Jaina: He SAID no Mon Cala PICKLES.😡

Zekk: ... Please. 🥺 👉👈

Jaina: Hey Zekk?

Zekk: Yeah Jay?

J: You know, I've never liked that you don't have a last name.

Z: Oh?

J: Yeah, I think you should have mine instead. 😏

Z: *Spittake* 😳😳😳😳

#star wars #star wars legends #star wars eu #young jedi knights #zekkna #jaina solo #zekk #jaina x zekk #ever after high #ever after high fan art #oc: anteros princely #memes #myposts #myart

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rai-knightshade-art · 2 years

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I started a new sketchbook the other day and it feels fitting that the first full page I've filled is just. A bunch of Young Jedi Knights fanart 😂 mostly Jaina/Zekk but there's a wild Jacen cameo in there--WITH a crystal snake cause i know what I'm about--plus the Test Tube Babies (which i know @lizartgurl will appreciate).

Brief description of each scene plus close ups below the cut, image IDs in the alt text as always!

The Scenes:

Starting from the top, and going from left to right-

1. Remember how Zekk actually went a lil darkside for a bit early on (it was very emotionally fraught and Jaina had to pull a "i know you're in there somewhere" speech and a Luke-esque move of throwing away her lightsaber cause "i know you'd never hurt me, you're my friend 🥺". Luckily for her she was right Zekk would never hurt her.)? This... is not that scene, this is acknowledging that Zekk-as-The-Darkest-Knight (HOW is that his actual title btw that's SO funny) looks like Baby's First Emo/Evil OC and Jaina will not take his Banthashit. Also this is definitely meant to remind of the "you're going to the X!" SpongeBob meme 😂 she may be 4'9" but she can still manhandle you Zekk!

2. What's the point of a dad who has long luxurious hair if you can't style it a lil? (Headcanon that while Zekk was the street rat and Jaina grew up privileged, Jaina gives zero fucks about her hair but Zekk takes meticulous care of his. Both of them are very "a lil engine grease never hurt nobody" tho). Aunt Tenel Ka taught Jasa some Dathomiri braiding techniques that she's eager to try out, and, well, while Jaina and Ani are off learning to fly, Zekk is a willing participant in his daughter's tests (beats having to chase her around the temple anyways).

3. An interlude from the other side of the family, in which Jacen (Prince Consort of Hapes btw because i fully know what I'm about and it's furthering my "au where jacen and Tenel Ka were HAPPY" agenda) has to field some... Interesting questions, from his son. Y'all know this meme.

Bail: Hey dad, can i ask you a question?

Jacen: sure kid, anything!

Bail: why does Mom call you "babygirl"?

Jacen: Except that, actually, how about we stop talking for a little while--

4. Been listening to Starlight (Taylor's Version) and I've decided it's a Jaina/Zekk song (in place of Love Story which only half fits their vibes), so now you get Jaina and Zekk in formal wear, judging us all and maybe kissing out on the balcony a lil as is their right. Partially inspired by one of Lizart's fics in which Jaina and Zekk wore capes, something i have always been about, tho the outfits aren't the exact same.

The Close Ups:

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rai-knightshade-art · 2 years

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Dual Character Page #1! I've been trying to cement how i think the YJK characters look in my personal headcanon (i.e. relatively divorced from the standard portrayals 😅 they're not the same as in canon so they should look different from canon), so I'm trying to create these pages featuring pairs of characters. First up: Jaina and Zekk! Who are also super special cause they get a Spotify Playlist featuring the songs I've mentioned on this page (among many others). Check it out if you'd like, it's got ship songs as well as individual songs, and is organized into sets of "vibes" but also works on shuffle!

Explanations on scenes and looks below the cut along with close ups, image id in alt text!

The Full-Body Designs:

Zekk and Jaina's finalized adult designs are pretty simple, all things considered: they're flight suits! Because these two are pilots first and Jedi second tbh (Jaina moreso than Zekk but it applies to both). I spiced them up a bit tho by giving them each some kind of overlayer reminiscent of more standard Jedi robes to denote their status. Is it practical? Ehhhh debatable, but it looks cool! Zekk wears a crossbody tunic-esque robe with traditional Ennth embroidery along the hems; meanwhile, Jaina meanwhile got a double-breasted overlayer that i saw on actual Jedi robes from the Old Republic (i wanna say they're vaguely inspired by Anakin's?? But not just Anakin, and possibly by some High Republic stuff). For the record it comes down in the back as well but as a single piece, stoll style. As for other design notes, idk physically they look about the way they do in most depictions; i alternate between giving Zekk a widow's peak and giving him a little dangly hair bit, at some point I'll probably just give him both--the long hair in a ponytail is non-negotiable tho. I like to think adult Jaina keeps her hair in a messy bun rather than all loose and flowing like she always seems to have in canon, because, like, how are you gonna get all that into a flight helmet??? You're not, that's what, so messy bun it is. She'll still leave it loose or in her signature ponytail sometimes tho.

Also, yes, i tried to keep them as close as i could to their actual height difference while still making them look physically the same age. It is Taxing who the fuck let this happen.

The Scenes:

Top (the Timeline)-just a little look into some scenes from their friendship over the years, with a kind of emphasis on how it seems like, with some exceptions, Zekk seems to kinda follow Jaina's lead most of the time up until he joins the Shadow Academy and learns some agency (albeit in the worst way possible); this timeline is supposed to kind of reflect that lead-follow relationship, until the Shadow Academy part, when Jaina actually stops for once and waits for Zekk. The final part is supposed to be her having come back to/for him after time apart, ending the cycle. Also includes lyrics from Sarah Smiles and Red, because... Idk the songs just kinda fit, you know?

Left (the Jam Session)- hey what if the Falcon had a speaker system modern car-style and Jaina and Zekk jammed out in it while flying through hyperspace, how cool would that be huh? Inspired by several jams on their playlist, mostly 80's ones because Zekk has 80's Pop-Rock vibes to me.

Bottom Left (History Rhymes)-Not me continuing my "what if Jaina and Zekk but they reference previous Star Wars eras, especially couples from said eras" agenda but with an Anakin and Padmé quote! Set in the immediate aftermath of the destruction of the Jedi Temple in Jedi Under Siege (right after the cut to black in fact, there's a time jump between the explosion and, like, the next day), Zekk is lying injured on the ground, still in full Darkest Knight regalia (including the bloodred cape--yes, i swear, that's not blood, sorry to disappoint), surrounded by rubble, having saved everyone left by keeping them from going inside. Jaina realized this, so of course she goes running up to her friend, distraught at the thought of losing him just after she'd maybe gotten him back. Cue her falling to the ground at his side, cradling his head and calling his name, only to have him blearily blink his eyes open, thoroughly concussed, see her surrounded by a halo of sunlight, and breathe out a "Are you an angel?" Before passing out again (because, again, head injury). Jaina is confused, but at least he's alive!

Bottom Right (Starlight)-no thoughts head Starlight (Taylor's Version) aka Jaina and Zekk are Jedi partners (and also maybe partner-partners) on a mission to infiltrate a high-end club somewhere in the Midrim. Zekk is posing as Prince Zekkleon of Ennth, with Jaina as his lovely companion Duchess Jaynara. Of course, dashing prince that he is, Zekk can't resist offering his hand in a dance, to the astonishment of Jaina. (Gotta say, this is going a lot more smoothly than that state dinner from their teenage years at least.) Zekk is almost certainly borrowing one of Lando's capes (or wearing one Lando just straight up bought for him, as is his wont), while Jaina's dress, tho you can't really see it very well, is based on a concept art design for one of Padmé's dresses, because I'm an absolute sucker for "Jaina in her grandmother's clothes" as a trope (i read one fanfiction about it and I've been hooked ever since). Quotes from Starlight cause goddammit this is THE JainaxZekk song for me along with Every Little Thing She Does is Magic and (Don't You) Forget About Me, among many others!

The Close-Ups:

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"Hi! I'm Jasa, what's your name?"

Zekk heard an echo of the past, in this little girl's voice and face. Another young girl, another question. ("Hi, I'm Jaina, what's your name?")

"...I'm Zekk."

(or, Zekk's not sure why he feels so drawn to these children, especially this boy looking at him with such a familiar expression of guarded fear but with eyes the color of Corellian brandy rather than emerald green. It takes looking into his own eyes, staring back at him from the face of a young Jaina Solo, before he fully realizes the magnitude of what they've found.)

(A long story explanation and details below the cut, image id in the alt text)

So. Who wants to hear this story I've concocted but won't actually be writing properly cause that requires an amount of world building and explaining that i simply cannot be assed to do for the self-indulgence of "what if my favorite ships had kids would that be kickass or what?". At least in this case. The answer is probably no one but i don't actually care because if i don't explain this in detail in some way to the public i will actually go crazy!

So.

So, as stated in my last post, way back in ye olden days of 2012 (roughly), pre-Disneyfication of Star Wars, i read the Young Jedi Knights novels and decided that i wanted Fankids of those kids. Specifically ones inspired by Maximum Ride aka basically test tube babies. I gave the profiles of the kids in that post and briefly explained that this was a Brakiss plan (he's not dead btw) that the Jedi stumbled upon, and Zekk and Anakin Solo were sent to take it down, round up the scientists and all that nonsense, and that nobody was expecting 4 kids to be there, least of all Zekk and Anakin.

Zekk and Anakin show up and know, like, immediately that something is up with these kids. Their auras ring with familiarity, they're force sensitive, and they just... Look like familiar faces put through a strange holofilter. Anakin figures it out completely shortly thereafter, recognizing the echoes of his siblings that he's known his whole life. It takes Zekk a bit longer to put the rest of the pieces together, to understand why he feels so drawn to the eldest boy looking at him with such a familiar expression of guarded fear but with eyes the color of Corellian brandy rather than emerald green. It takes looking into his own eyes, staring back at him from the face of a young Jaina Solo, before he fully realizes the magnitude of what they've found.

So of course they're like "oh we gotta tell Master Luke about this Force whatdoweDO" and extract the kids to take them back to Yavin IV after a cryptic holocall to the Jedi Master himself like "heeeyyy Uncle Luke so. Don't freak out. But turns out Brakiss's experiments were successful and we're bringing back 4 younglings with us and also we can't say more than that even on a secure link. Also you might wanna call for the Queen Mother of Hapes and her Consort and have them meet us there just saying k thanks bye"

(they might confront Brakiss here they might do it later idk something about Brakiss calling Zekk his Darkest Knight again even as Zekk stands defensively in front of his kids, defending them with his orange lightsaber is. Yeah.)

So they get back to Yavin IV and Luke's like "what's with the cryptic message??" And they show him the kids who both very obviously look like Solo-Skywalkers and feel even more so in the Force and he's like. Oh. Oh Force. And yeah that about sums it up. They get them inside where Jaina's waiting and she quips with Ani (because he uses verbal jabs as a defense mechanism and so does she) right up until she sees and feels Jasa and--she makes about the same expression Zekk made, when he first saw her, and abruptly runs off to freak out in private. Someone takes the kids off to clean up and eat and maybe start their years of therapy early while Luke debriefs his nephew and soon-to-be nephew in law, which goes relatively smoothly, and then it's just Luke and Zekk and now it's Zekk's turn to freak out.

So cue Zekk's freakout to Luke cause he's not ready to be a dad, they only just started talking about kids and-and Jaina didn't want biological kids! Yet here they are! Oh Force what if she says no to taking care of them (which he wouldn't begrudge her for, really, this is A Lot), could he choose between the love of his life and the children--the family-- he's wanted for years? Luke talks him through it though, until he comes to the understanding that, however they came to be, Zekk at least wants these kids, and that can be enough. He has a family already who can help, he has the Jedi, and the Solo-Skywalkers, and all his friends. Even if Jaina... Doesn't want to take care of them, it'll still be ok.

Jaina, for her part, is very much freaking out herself over an emergency holocall with Leia. She's worried that she won't be good enough, that she's too young, that she didn't want kids in the first place (because, really, why would you willingly bring another Skywalker into this world, when the lives of the ones already in it have suffered and caused suffering in such devastating amounts?), that she won't be able to be there for them when she needs to be. Leia tells her that she felt the same, before the twins were born; she worried that she'd be a terrible mother, an absent mother. She admitted that at least one of those fears was founded, and warned Jaina not to make that same mistake if at all possible. But, she also made mention of one crucial detail: in this specific case, Jaina could say no. She'd be well within her rights to say no, given that she hadn't wanted biological children in the first place. They would be taken care of, by Zekk or the teachers at the Praxeum or by an adoptive family in need, somewhere in the galaxy. If she truly didn't think she was ready, that she would do more harm than good as a mother, she could say no, and Leia would never shame or judge her for it. Zekk, she suspected, would never judge her for it either. And yet. If she decided she would be their mother, she wouldn't be doing it alone; she had her family, her friends, the Jedi--they would all help, where they could. They would take care of these kids when and where she could not.

Jaina had to take a while to think about it, but ultimately she decided... Since they were already here, and it was her blood running through Ani and Jasa's veins, it should be her, standing at Zekk's side and guiding these children through life. The thought of someone else taking care of them, seeing their smiles and easing their aches... She felt like she couldn't breathe. No, it wasn't the hand she'd wanted, but it was the one she was dealt, and she'd always been a good sabacc player.

(there's an emotional meeting between the two afterwards where they're both dreading what the other's going to say right up until they both blurt out that "I want to keep the kids!" "Wait, you do?!" And they hug and talk it out and become a stronger unified front, it's great.)

(For the record, and you'll see this in full force in another post featuring the other two kids more prominently, Jacen and Tenel Ka had a much easier time adjusting. Once they got over the initial shock, they immediately threw themselves into planning how to explain two sudden adoptions to the Hapan Court, sheepishly admitting later on that Tenel Ka was already pregnant anyways. (Allana it's Allana we're just gonna make that clear right now, she's, like, the only thing from the actual later books I'm keeping.))

Further notes:

All this is taking place roughly 10 years after the Shadow Academy thing, so Zekk is roughly 26? And the twins are about 24, if I'm remembering their ages at the time right (Zekk's wookieepedia page had many useful details about his timeline! Actual timestamps outside of a very few key dates were not among them). At this point, Jacen is the Prince Consort of Hapes because fuck court politics Tenel Ka is literally the Queen Mother. (Absolute power is bad except when she uses it to keep her boyfriend in which case it's good actually), and they're quite happy despite all the court machinations.

Zekk and Jaina are engaged (Jaina proposed it was a whole thing) and have only just started discussing plans for kids, which in my headcanon involves Jaina not particularly wanting any bio kids (it's a headcanon i subscribe to for most Jainas, including this one, tho it's especially strong in the true canon Jaina--I cannot see that woman going through the absolute ringer the way she did and seeing her family basically fall apart at the seams and deciding, "yeah i wanna bring another kid into that" like. Nah. Adoption, maybe. Biological kid? Kriff no. And that's that on that.); they'd tentatively agreed to a compromise of adoption, since Jaina knows how important building a family is to Zekk, being an orphan himself. So she was never against kids as a concept, just intentionally bringing more Skywalkers into the world--which she did not, intentionally, do, hence her decision that the best course of action would be to raise these kids as best they can.

On the art itself:

Idk there's not much to say here tbh, it's just Jasa blithely introducing herself and Zekk looking on in complete and utter shock. I tried to give it a kind of dreamy texture to the background with, like, crystal shapes and stuff, cause Zekk is very much "no thoughts head empty" right at that moment. The main detail, i think, that I'm not quite sure is captured very well here i may have to digitalize this to really get it across, is that, while Ani looks more like an even blend of both parents, Jasa is basically just Jaina 2.0 but with Zekk's eyes (it happens sometimes). So, Zekk sees this little girl, and it's like he's looking into the ghosts of his past, at Jaina the first time he met her. So, behind Jasa there's a spectral young Jaina, and behind Zekk there's a spectral version of his younger self, repeating the same lines over again in a moment of echoes and deja vu. Idk it maybe seemed cooler in my head but whatever I'm at least proud of those expressions.

If you've stuck around to the end, thank you (and my condolences).

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